TY - JOUR AU - Chuyko, Halyna AU - Zvarych, Igor PY - 2019/12/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - SPECIFICS OF INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET JF - PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL JA - Psychological journal VL - 5 IS - 12 SE - DO - 10.31108/1.2019.5.12.2 UR - https://apsijournal.com/index.php/psyjournal/article/view/770 SP - 21-42 AB - <p>The article presents the results of the theoretical study of the specificity of information messages on the Internet in the context of the role of information in modern society, focusing on the basic properties of textual information and informativeness as its necessary characteristic.</p><p>It is stated that, taking into consideration that the information society is characterized by a reflexive learning of information, which, reflecting rapid changes in the social system and life, is not reliable or factual, but has exclusively hypothetical probabilistic character, and the growing role of the Internet as a major source of information, the quality of information on the world electronic network is an important problem that needs to be solved.</p><p>The phenomenon of information and its correlation with alike concepts (knowledge, facts) was analyzed, the main types and properties of text information, among which the special attention is focused on informativeness as the most important necessary characteristic of information messages on the Internet, were distinguished.</p><p>It was pointed out that the analysis of the properties of information and the specifics of its submission on the Internet network demonstrated the lack of really important for the person and society, true factual information, and much of the Internet messages were objectively uninformative. The situation was caused by the circumstances that the modern Internet network had lost its purpose of being a macro-repository and source of the necessary for person and society information to a great extent, becoming a place, where the different quality information: from true and necessary to fake, meaningless and candidly absurd, had existed.</p><p>It was shown that the Internet – a global means of mass communication in society, capable of rapid transmission of huge flows of information, – was the sign-symbolic abstract social system. But we can rely on the information in it only temporary and if necessary, because its quality is often questionable, and the format of presentation – fragmentary of the separate clips of information – deprives it of not only reliability and credibility, but also of meaningfulness.</p><p>It was discovered that there were obstacles both in finding the necessary information on the Internet, and in the identification of its reliability and understanding of the meaning, caused in particular by the fragmentary-chaotic character of information’s submission, oriented not so much on informing people, but on the realization of the purpose of the hidden informational-communicative influence on individual and mass consciousness.</p><p>It was concluded that in order to satisfy the user search and optimize the quality of information on the Internet, it should be accessible, reliable and valuable, should have signs of completeness and informative of coverage of the problem under study.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -